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Deep Purple – Scandinavian Nights / Ian Gillan - vocals, Roger Glover - bass, Jon Lord - keyboards, Ian Paice - drums, Ritchie Blackmore - guitar / Connoisseur Collection 2x Audio CD 1972 / DPVSOPCD125
UPC 5015773012728
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Background:
The album was originally recorded by Swedish National Radio for a radio show called Tonkraft at the Stockholm Konserthuset on 12 November 1970, but not released until 1988. The tapes were re-mixed by Tom Leader at Angel Recording Studios in London. It remains the prime example of the early Mk II set list. The set list comprises songs from the album Deep Purple in Rock and long instrumentals from earlier albums. The two songs "Mandrake Root" and "Wring that Neck" took up half the concert in the early days, until the Fireball tour when the lineup was able to add more original material.
The US double CD, released in 1992, was titled Live and Rare, while the European double vinyl and double CD, released in 1988, were both titled Scandinavian Nights. The European vinyl release contained a limited edition picture booklet. The track timings printed (on both European vinyl and CD) refer to the length of the actual songs, in-between pauses are not included, but the timings on the US CDs do include the pauses.
The original master tapes were later discovered and remixed for a re-release as Live in Stockholm by Purple Records in 2005, with improved sound quality. On the original release the song running order was adjusted to fit the timing-restrictions of vinyl,and the first CD edition unnecessarily mimicked this; Live in Stockholm features the set list in the correct order.
A new edition of the album, titled Stockholm 1970, was released in 2014 by EDEL as part of "The Official Deep Purple (Overseas) Live Series" with additional material: two songs recorded in Paris in 1970; contemporary Jon Lord interview; a bonus DVD with Deep Purple's performance at Granada TV in 1970, previously released on VHS as Doing Their Thing.
The original 1988 album cover was featured in Pitchfork Media's 2005 list of "The Worst Record Covers of All Time".
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Wring That Neck
Written-By – I. Paice, J. Lord, N. Simper, R. Blackmore |
30:06 |
| 1-2 | Speed King
Written-By – I. Gillan, I. Paice, J. Lord, R. Blackmore, R. Glover |
10:20 |
| 1-3 | Into The Fire
Written-By – I. Gillan, I. Paice, J. Lord, R. Blackmore, R. Glover |
4:00 |
| 1-4 | Paint It Black
Written-By – Jagger-Richards |
9:08 |
| 2-1 | Mandrake Root
Written-By – J. Lord, R. Blackmore, R. Evans |
28:42 |
| 2-2 | Child In Time
Written-By – I. Gillan, I. Paice, J. Lord, R. Blackmore, R. Glover |
17:25 |
| 2-3 |
Black Night
Written-By – I. Gillan, I. Paice, J. Lord, R. Blackmore, R. Glover |
6:54 |
About the Band:
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a psychedelic rock and progressive rock band, they shifted to a heavier sound with their 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have been referred to as the "unholy trinity of British hard rock and heavy metal in the early to mid-seventies". They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as "the globe's loudest band" for a 1972 concert at London's Rainbow Theatre and have sold over 100 million copies of their albums worldwide.
Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus (1976–1984). The 1968–1976 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and IV. Their second and most commercially successful line-up consisted of Ian Gillan (vocals), Jon Lord (keyboards), Roger Glover (bass), Ian Paice (drums), and Ritchie Blackmore (guitar). This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973 and was revived from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1992 to 1993. The band achieved more modest success in the intervening periods between 1968 and 1969 with the line-up including Rod Evans (lead vocals) and Nick Simper (bass, backing vocals), between 1974 and 1976 with the line-up including David Coverdale (lead vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass, vocals) (and Tommy Bolin replacing Blackmore in 1975), and between 1989 and 1992 with the line-up including Joe Lynn Turner (vocals). The band's line-up (currently including Ian Gillan, and guitarist Steve Morse from 1994) has been much more stable in recent years, although keyboardist Jon Lord's retirement from the band in 2002 (being succeeded by Don Airey) left Ian Paice as the only original Deep Purple member still in the band.
Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1's Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, and a poll on radio station Planet Rock ranked them 5th among the "most influential bands ever". The band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards. Deep Purple (specifically Blackmore, Lord, Paice, Gillan, Glover, Coverdale, Evans, and Hughes) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
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- Bass – Roger Glover
- Coordinator – Tony Edwards
- Drums – Ian Paice
- Guitar – Ritchie Blackmore
- Keyboards – Jon Lord
- Liner Notes – Simon Robinson
- Mixed By [Remix, Uncredited] – Tom Leader
- Vocals – Ian Gillan
